Program Manager – HRM (June 2017 – current)

The project

After several years of pure T&M, the company decided to take on a new challenge, with some fixed price project, relying on my past experiences giving me an overall PM role

Duties:

·         Design and implementation (through tools like Confluence and JIRA) of the collaboration model among the various team involved (also belonging to other companies) and the final customer too.

·         Design and implementation of the workflows development processes

·         Daily tracking of task progress,workload and kpi analysis (the last is still in progress)

·         Leading the way to the adoption of more and more Agile oriented methodologies

Freelance Consultant with PM responsibilities- ACCENTURE (March 2017 – June 2017)

The Project

Part of the business processes digital transformation  of an investment bank, it will last several months. As consultant, I cooperate with the governance and architectural team bringing my contribution in terms of skills and experience for boththe solution design and the coordination of the several involved teams (mainly UX-UI, web designer, analysts and developers).
The project relies on a cloud platform and will be developed following the microservices pattern.

Duties:

·     Help managers adopting agile methodologies, with as smooth as possible transition from classical waterfall approach

·     Maintaining an overall view of the project avoiding that the single team goals prevent or delay the final target achievement, acting as "glue"

·     Planning 

·     Architectural and technical overview, especially for critical choices

Insurance company – MILAN

Freelance Consultant with PM responsibilities- ACCENTURE (May 2016 – March 2017)

The Project

A migration project from VB6 to a multitier, SOA architecture based on an AngularJS  UI backed by an integration (a FUSE ESB is also part of the solution design) and a backend layer.

It has to be delivered within 15 months (rollout date in production environment) for a total effort well above 12k man days involving at least 4 off-shore teams.

The real challenge is to evolve the initial idea of a pure waterfall approach to anAgile ones, creating a complete “project environment” to track and keep under control both cost and progress.

For this reason, I’m taking a deep-dive into Confluence and JIRA, understanding how to customize them with both plugins and scripts.

It has to be delivered within 15 months (rollout date in production environment) for a total effort well above 12k man days involving at least 4 off-shore teams.

The real challenge is to evolve the initial idea of a pure waterfall approach to an Agile ones, creating a complete “project environment” to track and keep under control both cost and progress.

For this reason, I’m taking a deep-dive into Confluence and JIRA, understanding how to customize them with both plugins and scripts.

Duties:

·     Gathering requirementsto identify all the main tasks needed for the project completion  (software, pm, deploy…)

·   Definition of the whole delivery model (scope and methodologies for analysis, implementation, tests, deployment)

·   Definition of the collaboration model between the off-shore teams

·     POC with JIRA and Confluence (+ plugins), especially how to:

o    Define activity workflow

o    Organize work and task

o    Sharing knowledge at every level (from meeting to technical documentation)

o    Keep track of costs and expenses (both OPEX and CAPEX)

o    Keep track of project progress

·     Definition of the WBS

·     Review of the estimation

·     Supporting the architectural team

·     Solution design for devops

Insurance company – MILAN

Freelance Consultant as SME- ACCENTURE (January 2015 – May 2016)

The Project

A brand new site for a product of the company, designed with innovative solutions (Angular JS UI backed by Rest services written in Java) and deployed on a customized CMS (based on EPP). The project is split in two sub-projects, local (a real production project) and global (a sort of masterpiece code intended to be the code baseline for different Operating Entities)

Shared responsibility for the delivery of the “Local” Project. Part of the architectural team for the solution design

Overall responsible as SME for the Global project, designing architecture and main business solutions in order to meet both functional and non-functional requirements, assuring code quality, respect of the delivery timelines.
Duties:

·   Responsible for the delivery of the “Global” project (AngularJS web app backed by Java Rest services).

·   Relationship with end user (German)

·     Coordination with off-shore Rome and Vienna development team

·     Local team management (about 10 technical staff).

·     Design processes to improve efficiency and quality.

·     Monitor the day by day tasks assigned to the team.

·     Overall check that the delivered software meets business requirements (both functional and non-functional).

Insurance company – MILAN

Freelance Consultant as Software Architect – ACCENTURE (October 2014 – January 2015)

The Project

Assessment of the existing (20 years, VB) software to define metrics for a migration project quotation, and design, as a part of the architectural team, the final solution (few scenarios).

Duties:

·     Gathering data for objectives metrics.

·     Depict of architectural design with innovative solutions (AngularJS, Rest service)

·     Depict of a whole solution for the project delivery (including, for instance ALM tools) and maintenance.

VODAFONE (as I.CON consultant) – MILAN 

Freelance Consultant as Project Manager – I.CON (January 2000 – March 2015)

The Project – Vodafone One

At its best, one of the widest European Loyalty Program, with more than 10 million of active users, and more than 600.000 basic transactions per days.

Main steps

·     Design of the database (Oracle) and main software backend applications (C++, oci) (2000)

·     Migration to new platform (adaptation of the system for prepaid customers, new technologies)(2002)

·     Migration to JAVA and web application (previously a 4GL UI) (2006).

·     Reduction of the program to meet new marketing budget constraints (2013).

Overall responsible for the following teams: business analyst, developer, tester, support (H24) with deep knowledge of Vodafone processes (improved during these 15 years). Assuring high code quality and respect of delivery timelines (never had a rollback or a missed a canvass).

Minimizing effort to maximize profit scaling up and down team, choosing people based on both technical and human profile, improving and supervising delivery process.

Able to reach the goal of 100% profit (1.000.000 euro of revenues, spending just 500.000in 2006, for Java migration and Maintenance)

Duties:

·     Managing three/four teams, (total of 10 up to 30-35 people)

·     Project planning.

·     Requirements gathering, producing final offer

·     Manage budget

·     Reporting to the IT Director & Chief Executive

·     Having excellent time management, confidentiality & communication skills

·     Having excellent relationship with end user (CRM), customers (Vodafone IT, Marketing)

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Industry specific attributes
 

·     Knowledge of many languages and framework, both for backend and UI design and development (say angular, Java, Spring, Oracle, pl/sql, less, sass….)

·     Application Lifecycle Management tools (GIT, JIRA, Jenkins)

·     Project Management Tool (MS Project, JIRA)

·     See the attachment

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
University namedates
Politecnico di Milano October 1995

master degree as

Electronical Engineer

SOFT SKILLS

Leadership
Team building

Excellent relational skills
Determination
Perseverance
Attention to the details

Self-Confidence

Ability to work under any kind of pressure

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Project Management
IT Management
Managing crisis situation
Business analysis
Project Delivery
Integration
Application development